فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Introduction: On the one hand, there are contradictory evidence on the effects of emotion regulation strategies on intrusive thoughts and on the other hand, the effect of alternative strategies, such as acceptance on retrieval of autobiographical memory has not been extensively studied yet. Hence, this research aimed to investigate the influences of thought suppression, and acceptance on intrusive thoughts in non-clinical sample.Methods: A quasi-experimental design was adopted with 66 participants that were randomly assigned to 3 groups (thought suppression, acceptance, and control group). Participants answered to some questionnaires. Then, a clip and a related instruction were presented for each group. They were asked to perform according to instruction after movie and put in a tick in a paper whenever the thoughts of movie come to their mind. Reults were analysed using ANOVA in SPSS.Results: Results indicated that there is a significant differences between groups, and striking differences were between  the acceptance group and thought suppression.Conclusion: this result is consistent with the hypothesis that avoidance is a short term, useful emotion regulation mechanism. Although acceptance led to  a significant increase of intrusive thoughts, it may have beneficial impacts on mood. Results are discussed in terms of cross-cultural findings.